The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-06
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

John Ganish. an engineer on the Erie road,
shot himself Monday night near Port Jervis.
spondent.
The mortality in New York city begins to ex-
cite alarm. On Monday two hundred people
died and yesterday the deaths of 20S were re-
corded.
Rudolph V. Cragle, of New York took a dose
of paris green Monday night, and died yester-
day morning His wife was unfaithful to him,
and he ended his existence
Herman, Steineck, German, aged forty-five
years, unmarried, committed suicide early yes
terday morning, by drowning, in the Bronx
river. New York. The cause is not known
Fred Leavitt of Boston, while recklessly slid
ing snow bank gorge of the White
mountains Monday, fell over precipice 120
feet high and was terribly bruised. He may
cover
VIM Burris an attorney at Buckeye City. O.,
was shot and killed Monday night by Zack Hib-
bits. The killing was the result of an old feud.
Hibbitts arrested and placed in Jail at Mt.
Vernon.
Nellie Case, aged eighteen years, of Collins
vile, Conn, foolishly pointed a pistol at the
head of a friend. on Monday, and then at herself.
The weapon discharged and, a result,
Nellie is dead.
A gang Of roughs attempted to board the local
train from Alexandria, Va, to Washington, last
night, and in a scramble between the train men
Ss.4 the roughs Geo. Werem baker, brakeman,
was hit with a stone and killed.
On Monday. George Wargo and Joseph Lazer,
OF Derringer. Pa, went to Hazelton to witness
tue ceieoratlon, ana got drunk. Returning
home in that condition, Wargo shot and killed
Lazer. The murderer was arrested.
In general street fight, at jersey City, last
night. between eight or ten young men, Robert
W. Ostendorff, a clerk. was shot in the head and
killed James and William Devne and Robert
Scott, participants in the fight, have been
rested.
An oil car on the Pennsylvania railroad was
thrown from the track by a collision st Diller-
vile. Monday night, and the contents ignited.
Three oil cars, three cars loaded with flour and
a cabin totally consumed, causing a
loss of $40, 600.
across Niagara river, yesterday, starting from
the ..Maid of the Midst landing, was caught in
a current and carried down through the whirl
pool rapids. Cronan came TO the falls from Bos-
ton about week ago.
At Wheeler Mich, Monday night, a cannon
burst, killing NJ. Mills and seriously iniufing
several others At the adjoining village of
Ithaca the fireworks exploded prematurely, ia
tally injuring Colonel Snidecker and burning
several Others seriously
Milo Thomas a young white man, was killed.
old colored boy. A dispute arose about a cigar
cite picture belonging to the boy. Thomas
slapped the boy, and was killed by stab from a
dirk IN the hands of the youth.
During a sham battle at Delta, Fulton county
Ohio. on Monday. Postmaster w. r. Hunting
ton fatally shot. He lived but a short time
after the shooting How the bullet got in
among the blank cartridges which the troops
supposed to use, nobody can explain
Joseph Quinn, member of the New York
Athletic Club and amateur champion wrestler,
shot and killed last night by David Lyons,
a saloon lounger and ex convict. Jealousy
the cause, both being attentive to a young
woman. who preferred Quinn. Lyons has thus
far eluded the police.
week ago Miss Taplin, of Summerside P. E.
L. left her home for the purpose of meeting her
seducer, VIM Millman. Yesterday her body
found in the river. with two bullet holes in
the head and neck and rope around her neck,
%ox htoh cfnn xroo nft had ly1or Nd
man named Byrenton have been arrested for
completely in her murder.
Christina Kreig, forty years DID, committed
: suicide by shooting herself, at her home. 1G9
Greenwich street, New Y ork, Monday night.
Her husband. Charles. who keeps saloon at the
same number, awoke yesterday morning to find
his wife dead by his side, she having shot her.
self il the left breast. Her husband treated her
badly.
Private Thomas n. Bateman Troop A. Second
United States Cavalry, shot and killed First
Sergeant Samuel II. Sopher. of the same troop.
at the Preside barrack, San Francisco, yester-
day. Both men paraded in this city with their
troop, yesterday, and the sergeant reprimanded
Bateman, whom he found intoxicated in a liquor
store at night.
collision occurred on the Milwaukee. Lake
Shore e Western railway, two miles west of
Bessemer Mich. Monday night, by which
Danie! Tangney, a passenger. and several en-
ployes of the road, were seriously injured. The
limited press was being followed by switch
engine, when a slight break in the passenger
CINE caused sudden stop. and the collision re-
suited.
Eddie Weldon, aged eleven years, shoot
ing off fre-crackers, Monday night in front of
John Flynn's saloon, in Cedar street, New York.
Flynn told the boy to desist, but was unheeded.
Thereupon Flynn fired three shots from a
boys right knee TO pieces. Eddie will likely die
of the injury, and Flynn is held to await its
outcome.
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